love blooms ¦ renmin

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Renjun is tasked to get some art materials from the storage room which is located at the same floor but Renjun hates doing tasks that requires physical efforts.

He lazily walks past through the hallways. He prays that he won't be carrying heavy boxes.

As he arrives at the storage room, he unlocks door. The smell of paints and wooden canvas greets him and so, he warmly smiles.

Renjun doesn't know why but every time he sees set of brushes, tubes of paints, watercolors, canvas, sketchpads and any art materials, there's a homey, excitement and contented feeling on his chest.

Just everything about art is his world of happiness.

He looks at the paper on his hand and reads it. He just needs to bring Da Vinci paint brushes and Liquitex acrylic paints.

He scans the boxes to find what he's looking for but unluckily he trips over his own foot, causing him to fall on top of the opened boxes. He closes his eyes and cringes as the loud thud roars over the quiet room.

Suddenly, running footsteps can be heard from outside the room.

Someone is coming in! Renjun panics.

He's about to stand up but the person already has come inside and sees his ridiculous state. It's embarrassing, Renjun knows.

"What are you doing?" The familiar voice asks, another hint of amusement on his voice.

"Swimming." Renjun sarcastically says to divert his embarrased self and pushes himself from landing on top of the boxes. He fixes his uniform before grabbing the box of watercolor tubes that fell because of him. And puts it back from its original place.

"How's the swim?" Jeno jokingly says.

Renjun ignores him and continues to find the materials the teacher requested him to get.

"So, what are you finding?" Jeno asks him but he still gets ignored by Renjun. So Jeno carefully goes behind him and eyes the piece of paper on Renjun's grasp before snatching it away.

"Ya!" Renjun yells, clearly annoyed at him.

It's Jeno's turn to ignore him, he reads the paper and starts to walk towards the other side of the room and he sees what Renjun needs. He carries the medium box then he moves farther to find the acrylic paints, and he easily found it. Jeno puts the medium box on top of the large box before carrying it.

Renjun's mouth hangs open as he stares at Jeno who has found what he needed and who has a smile plastered on his face even if he's carrying two heavy boxes.

"It's arranged alphabetically so that it can be easy to find." Jeno explains.

"Thank you." Renjun mutters but it's more like a whisper, then his ears turn into a deep shade of red.

Jeno is one of the least people he wanted to give thanks for but since he helped him, he's thankful even though his pride doesn't want him to.

Jeno looks so surprised then his smile turns into a smirk, feeling proud that he heard him say thanks. He did not even think about Renjun saying thanks rather he thought that he'll shrug and curse him off.

Jeno judged him badly, Renjun is actually a softie. Slightly.

When Jeno is about to tease him, Renjun gives him a deadly gaze, "Don't." Renjun threatens him.

"Not bad. You're getting soft on me now?" Jeno wiggles his eyebrows.

Renjun kicks him but Jeno has quick reflexes so he did dodge him, "Your small foot can't reach me." Jeno jokes.

"Shut up, big nose. Don't joke to me like that as if we're close." Renjun stomps away from him towards the door. Jeno fixes holding the boxes before following him outside.

Of course, there's still a smile on Jeno's face.

Renjun locks the door. And then he contemplates whether getting the smaller box from Jeno or just make Jeno bring all those stuffs to the art room with him.

Renjun picks the second choice, Jeno has muscular arms and biceps and he don't have it so might as well take advantage on his strength.

And it seems like Jeno would insist carrying the boxes even if Renjun oppose him.

"You know, if I didn't hear a loud bam when I got up the stairs then you would still be searching these two things right now." Jeno blabbers.

The stairs is just beside the storage room and when Jeno heard something that fell, he immediately went there than going to his club room.

"If the door was closed, then I probably didn't hear it since all the rooms are soundproof." He continues to tell him. Renjun did not say a word but he's listening.

They are near the art room when someone calls Jeno's name from behind.

It's Jaemin.

Jeno stops and turns to face his boyfriend while Renjun stops too but he didn't turn. He should be just walking away from these two, but he chose not to.

"I'm just gonna help this little guy over here. I'll be there in a second." Jeno assures Jaemin who's looking at them weirdly.

The word 'little' made Renjun look at Jeno's way and scowls at him.

Jaemin looks at Renjun then back to Jeno before nodding at him with a smile.

The two of them turn their backs and walk away.

Jaemin stares at Renjun before he unconsciously smiles a little.

Jaemin feels a small pang of pain on his chest.

His smile turns into a frown, his eyebrows are furrowed and he puts his hand on his chest.

Why?

Maybe he feels jealous upon seeing Jeno with Renjun because he knows Jeno doesn't like Renjun for his attitude but they are together which is weird.

Or maybe he's jealous because Jeno is with Renjun and he can talk to him with casuality even though Renjun is a kind of person who's hard to please.

Maybe...

Jaemin shakes his head, "That's stupid, Jaemin." He tells himself. He goes back inside the dance room and continues to do the warm up exercise he's doing awhile ago.

Maybe he's just stressed and worn out lately so he thought about those uneccessary things awhile ago.

Yes, that's just it. Jaemin assures himself.